Leaders at a Fortune Top 25 company had decided that it was time to make the switch from client-server on prem software to providing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud based service. Not only was their IT team not prepared to operate a public cloud, but they had to delegate the procurement, installation and deployment of over 300 physical servers. Though they split into 4 sub-groups to tackle this challenge, the entire provisioning task required nearly 6 weeks to accomplish due to a simple lack of organizational agility.
The company was losing out on revenue from the servers sitting idle for so long during the provisioning process. Customers would question why they were not able to immediately utilize the services, and instead would be stuck waiting, while the company was also stuck waiting to be able to collect revenue.
DC Operator starts server provisioning and creates a ServiceNow ticket.
NetOps, ServerOps and SecOps teams pass the task back and forth at different priority levels as they operate through the manual new server provisioning process.
NetOps and SecOps update the ServiceNow ticket and give to the business side. Business now adds the task of contacting the customer to their hundreds of other tasks.